Ontario Arts Council launches Craft Projects in Canada

Deadline: 26-Oct-22

The Ontario Arts Council has launched the applications for Craft Projects to support craft-based practices through grants to Ontario-based artists, curators, ad hoc groups, collectives and organizations.

Priorities

• The program’s priorities are to support:
  • A range of craft-based practices including work that is functional, conceptual, sculptural or from an art or design perspective
  • Projects that explore new directions or preserve craft traditions
  • Indigenous artists working with craft materials in contemporary or customary ways
  • Activities that contribute to arts education, public participation and community involvement in craft in Ontario
  • Craft artists at all stages of their careers
  • Craft artists to create individually or to work with others collaboratively, either within the craft field or in other disciplines.

Categories

• The program has five categories:
  • Research/Creation/Development – Emerging artists and curators: to help cover the costs of research, experimentation, creation, production and/or career development
  • Research/Creation/Development – Mid-career artists and curators: to help cover the costs of research, experimentation, creation, production and/or career development
  • Research/Creation/Development – Established artists and curators: to help cover the costs of research, experimentation, creation, production and/or career development
  • Research/Creation/Development – Collaborations: to help cover the costs of artists to collaborate on research, experimentation, creation, production and/or career development
  • Connections: to help cover the costs of projects that connect Ontario craft with audiences and expand the public profile and appreciation for craft; programming that encourages craft-based critical discourse and curatorial practice; and activities that make connections within the Ontario craft community

Funding Information

• Research/Creation/Development – Emerging artists and curators: maximum $5,000
• Research/Creation/Development – Mid-career artists and curators: maximum $7,500
• Research/Creation/Development – Established artists and curators: maximum $15,000
• Research/Creation/Development – Collaborations: maximum $15,000
• Connections: maximum $12,000

Important: Due to the number of applications they receive and the limited funds that are available, grants awarded may be smaller than the amount requested.

Eligibility Criteria

• Research/Creation/Development:
  • Artists and curators who are Ontario residents
  • Ad hoc groups, collectives and collaborative groups
• Connections:
  • Artists and curators (including co-applicants)
  • Craft guilds (incorporated or not)
  • Ad hoc groups and collectives
  • Incorporated not-for-profit organizations
• Important: For collaborative projects in Research/Creation/Development or Connections categories, you have the option of:
  • Selecting one individual or group to submit the application on behalf of those collaborating
  • Applying as two co-applicants
  • Applying as an ad hoc group or collective

Ineligible

• Undergraduate or graduate students enrolled full-time at an educational institution
• Curators may not apply for research or exhibition activities they have been contracted or employed to do for an organization that receives OAC operating grants in the Visual Arts section
• Public galleries and artist-run centres receiving an operating grant in the Visual Arts section
• Municipalities, colleges and universities
• An incorporated for-profit business
• Anyone who has received a Chalmers Professional Development grant and not completed and reported on the project
• Organizations that receive a grant in the Public Art Galleries: Operating or Visual Arts Artist-Run Centres and Organizations: Operating programs
• organizations that receive an operating grant in other OAC programs, with the exception of organizations mandated to serve one or more of the OAC priority groups
• Important: Individual artists and curators may apply to only one OAC Visual Arts or Craft program per year, regardless of whether their application is successful. The Exhibition Assistance program is the exception to this application limit.

Note: You may submit only one application to either the Chalmers Professional Development or the Craft Projects program for Development activities in the same year.

For more information, visit Craft Projects.

For more information, visit https://www.arts.on.ca/grants/craft-projects